My knee aches today. Felt it a little last night, more this morning. I am wondering if my knee is not yet up to my not-terribly-ambitious squat program. I will give it another week, but if it aches again significantly, I will back off and start on something else.

My knee still hurts today. Not achy, but ouchy. I think it's telling me I am not ready to squat and deadlift each week, even lightly. I am trying to decide if I should continue my cycle, drop the weights, or just drop squats and keep deadlifting, or drop both and go for rehab-style leg exercises. Tough choices all around.

I was supposed to drop all of these to 2 and 3 sets, but I didn't, since this is the only day I can really work as hard as I'd like to.

AM: 1 1/2 MMA classes. Did a full class, then stuck around for about half of the next class. Spent most of the first one working basics with a new guy, then mitts and rolling for the rest of the class and half of the next one. Felt pretty good.

Because my knee is feeling bad, I decided to extend my warm and to drop squats. I did the deadlifts as planned, and I rammed the accessory leg curls back up to 4 sets. We'll see if this bother my knee. If not, I will keep deadlifting. If so, they are gone until my knee is back to 100%. This is why you don't see a replacement for the squat - I don't want to add another variable.

Good news - my knee didn't hurt today. Either squats bother it, or it's not strong enough to support squats so it was grinding under off-centered pressure, or the volume was too high. Or something else. But with less volume and no weighted squats, my knee felt better.

Bad news - my knee felt like it needed to pop, but wouldn't, all day. That's bad because that's how it felt before it went in January last year. So I am being careful with it. Also, my shoulder ached after the deadlifts and felt tight today.

Seated cable rows - felt okay while I did them, but getting into position is tough. After, my back felt tight, so I think it's these that does that. I will swap out for a standing cable row, perhaps, or a DB row of some kind.

Barbell shrug - 155 was okay, but light. 185 was better. I will go up from there, or perhaps do trap bar shrugs in the cage? We'll see.

Above 12-13" of snow here, so no MMA today. Our apartment was snow-blown out, but when I went outside to check on my car my neighbor asked me if I could help him dig out. So I did.

Doing the mobility stuff two days in a row was interesting. My hips were really sore from yesterday. I think I need to keep doing this 1-2 days a week, in addition to what I do in my warmups. My knee felt so-so, but I'm hoping it will feel consistently better if I work at it.

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